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Forest Chronicles: Us and United

LTLF 04 December @ 06:47 AM EDT
The young Gary Roe is star-struck, but Forest are emerging as potential title challengers... 1966. The year we won the World Cup and, although a staunch Forest supporter, I couldn't help admiring players in the England team. I also saw the likes of Pele, Eusabio and Torres, Riva and Rivera of Italy, and Lev Yashin of [. Click to continue reading...

Forest Chronicles – Uncle Tom’s two bob

LTLF 05 November @ 02:02 PM EDT
Gary Roe's granddad took him to his first Forest games when he was a nipper. Now he's hooked and learning more about the game by the day, which could stand him to make a profit... It was the following season when I got to go down to the City Ground again and by now I was [...] Click to continue reading...

Forest Chronicles – A Man called Stan

LTLF 30 October @ 08:58 AM EDT
The eight-year-old Gary Roe has just watched his first Forest match and now he's hooked. His granddad is taking him to the City Ground once again with the promise of seeing the greatest player of the era in action... The journey home seemed a long one, we had to catch two buses; how did Granddad [.. Click to continue reading...

Forest Chronicles – The First Game

LTLF 22 October @ 08:21 AM EDT
The first steps I took to being a Forest fan came in a strange surrounding, Meadow Lane the home of Notts County FC. I was about 7 or 8 years old and getting interested in football, I must have been influenced by my granddad for a start, and he was football mad. He used to [...] Click to continue reading...